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Friday, January 20, 2012

Flower Hill Farm BUTTERFLIES Of 2011 ~ Favorite Monarchs

The much beloved and admired Monarch ButterflyDanaus plexippus begins this series of my favorite butterflies from the gardens of 2011. I so look forward to their return each summer and delight in finding their tiny etched eggs on milkweed plants. It is more exciting when I see the female actually fastening her eggs.

I should truly love to be a butterfly . . . a Monarch emerging in late summer, so I could fly to Mexico.

Ah . . . to have the courage of a butterfly! I should wish for sunny warm days to fly freely.

Here are a few of my favorite images and encounters with Monarch butterflies over last summer and fall. I have written extensively about their marvel of a metamorphosis here, here, here, here, here and here.

This is the first in a parade of butterflies from 2011.

It is time to visit Katarina for other fanciful flights of imagination and delight.

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For thirty years, I have been farming/gardening, observing and documenting a twenty-acre New England hillside paradise, which includes organic wildly cultivated rambling gardens, fields of wildflowers and organic blueberries, forest, fabulous views and expanse of sky. My greatest joy in working with the land is seeing how my farm has evolved into a habitat . . . home to a diverse community of wildlife. My blog is a journal of all the comings and goings of the flora and fauna here. All the photographs featured are taken at Flower Hill Farm ~ unless noted otherwise.